8b Principal Applied Psychologist - OA Hospital at Home Team

This is a senior, part-time psychology leadership role within the Hospital at Home Team for people aged 65 and over. The postholder will be an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, combining highly specialist clinical work with enhanced leadership, consultation and service-development responsibilities. The role will support the prevention of avoidable hospital admission by strengthening psychologically informed assessment, formulation, intervention and decision-making across the service.,

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and brief evidence-based intervention for older people with complex mental health, cognitive and dementia-related needs.
• Provide senior psychological consultation to the Hospital at Home multidisciplinary team, including complex case formulation, risk assessment, risk management and care planning.
• Lead the development of psychologically informed practice across the service, ensuring that psychological perspectives influence clinical pathways, operational decision-making and service redesign.
• Provide clinical and professional leadership to psychological practitioners and contribute to leadership across the wider Older Adult psychology service.
• Lead reflective practice, consultation, teaching and workforce development for multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Provide supervision to qualified psychologists, trainees, assistant psychologists and other psychological practitioners, as appropriate to the agreed establishment.
• Lead or oversee service evaluation, audit, quality improvement and research activity, using outcomes and service-user feedback to inform development.
• Build effective relationships across Older Adult urgent care, community, inpatient, memory assessment and partner services to support integrated pathways for older adults and carers.
  
  We are a thriving and forward-thinking Older Adult psychology team here at BCHFT with a wide array of special interests and a commitment to growth through CPD.
A closely linked team of psychologists that work across all services within the Division including Community, In-Patient and Memory Assessment services across the 4 Black Country areas of Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Walsall and Dudley. The role will be with in the newly formed Hospital at Home Team a creative and innovative team where you will provide supervision, training, reflective practice to multidisciplinary teams in addition to individual and group work with clients.